Emanuele Calchetti (; born 2 February 1981 in Sansepolcro) is an Italian rally co-driver, in 2012 FIA Alternative Energies World Champion. Belgrado incorona Emanuele Calchetti campione del mondo co-piloti . ArezzoNotizie, 10-29-2012.
Biography Calchetti has participated in the FIA Alternative Energies World Champion since 2010. During that season, with the driver Guido Guerrini, he won the regularity standingsUntil 2010 for the FIA world championship general standing didn't count the regularity classification, but the combined results of regularity and consumptions. of the circuit race in Monza (with Citroën C1) Trionfo di Imega a Monza. ArezzoNotizie, 05-31-2010. and Franciacorta (Citroën C5). Michele Lupetti, Guerrini-Calchetti ancora sugli scudi a Franciacorta. ValdichianaOggi, 08-29-2010.
In 2011, with Alfa Romeo Mito, he gained the second place in San Marino Imega è vicecampione del mondo FIA . Ecomotori, 10-18-2011. and the third place in Athens. Guerrini-Calchetti ora secondi nel mondiale . Valtiberina Informa, 09-26-2011.
In 2012, again with Alfa Romeo Mito, Calchetti became World Champion in the co-drivers' category, winning in Athens Strepitoso successo della scuderia Imega-Boninsegni in Grecia . SaturnoNotizie, 10-08-2012. and arriving second in Montréal Energia alternativa, due biturgensi sul podio della Coppa del Mondo Fia . ArezzoNotizie, 10-01-2012. and Belgrade. Franco Lombardi, Il Tesla Eco Rally a Belgrado. Auto d'Epoca, n. 1 (341), january 2013, p. 114.
In 2019 he came back to the races with Guido Guerrini on an Audi e-tron in the FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup. Toscan crew won in Switzerland (Rallye du Chablais) and reached the podium other six times, finishing the season at the third place of the general standings and winning the manufacturers' championship.
In 2024 Guerrini and Calchetti, on a Nio ET5, conquered the first EcoRally Cup China, winning 3 of the 5 stages and the final classification of Greater Huangshan International Ecorally held in the Anhui province.
Journalist, Calchetti is since 2008 a member of the City council of Sansepolcro. In 2011 he wrote with Guido Guerrini the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Road). Via Stalingrado. Quattroruote n. 676, February 2012, page 34. Simone Lupino, . Russia Oggi, 11-29-2013. In 2016 he voiced the Italian character of Gianni, played by Enzo Cilenti, in the Russian version of British film Bridget Jones's Baby.
Bibliography Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, pp. 216. . Emanuele Calchetti, Socialismo lunare, in 70 ore nel futuro, Fuorionda, 2013, pp. 180. . Emanuele Calchetti, Siberia, in Guido Guerrini, Eurasia. Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico con il gas naturale, Sansepolcro, 2018. .
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